From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 4 17:37:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from stjohn.stjohn.ac.th (stjohn.stjohn.ac.th [202.21.144.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E49BD37B403 for ; Mon, 4 Jun 2001 17:37:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mcrogerm@stjohn.ac.th) Received: from tulip ([203.151.134.104]) by stjohn.stjohn.ac.th (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) with SMTP id HAA00890; Tue, 5 Jun 2001 07:33:43 +0700 (ICT) Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.20010605073634.007a74b0@stjohn.stjohn.ac.th> X-Sender: mcrogerm@stjohn.stjohn.ac.th X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2001 07:36:34 +0700 To: Jim Krenz From: Roger Merritt Subject: Re: root shell Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: References: <01060110055802.10053@katana.amberskogg.dns2go.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 02:42 PM 6/1/01 -0700, you wrote: >on 6/1/01 8:05 AM, Jim Couch at root@katana.amberskogg.dns2go.com wrote: > >> Something that I haven't seen mentioned is that, >> unless you got the installed in a non-standard way, bash oughta be in >> /usr/local/bin/bash > >Another useful thing to do is: > >cat /etc/shells > >Which I believe shows which shells are installed and where they are located. > >Jim >rank FreeBSD newbie No, /etc/shells lists the shells any user is permitted to use. You may have half a dozen shell programs installed, but if you haven't entered their paths in /etc/shells you won't be able to use chsh to select them. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message